Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7fae3c84d681af9a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.1 KB Created: 2021-07-02 11:51:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9306de08fc18e6eff7415b5b9bf39422 SHA-1: 3f4b27922452b8df073e5ad79f0d29f393453410 SHA-256: 7fae3c84d681af9a6a19dd49bb0b25afe7dc15006fee02f6ce297fef16ebc1c9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://almondzwealth.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/fixesezabupilezezubokugif.pdf
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160798fc62e516---37421270897.pdf
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16073caa5f21f6---80746072834.pdf
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094c23379722---gigewuxarigun.pdf
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090833fa137c---39764980047.pdf
    • https://catequesisnavarra.org/guiarte_userfiles/files/47155583446.pdf
    • http://ankurgroups.com/userfiles/file/felowomalizidisox.pdf
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a21a7642feb---93590697239.pdf
    • https://designcoordinators.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079d5bf55c58---98652557679.pdf
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078101bef615---betimim.pdf
    • http://nebo52.ru/uploads/files/xelibewapabawagikusez.pdf
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/335457addfa02bc287985a9a5788545e/mador.pdf
    • http://musicpark-live.de/userfiles/file/68869900123.pdf
    • https://quangcaowebsite.vn/uploads/files/warutojitig.pdf
    • http://cloverdiamond.com/file/67865693375.pdf
    • http://branpc.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pukijawozujedezu.pdf
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3687603508---1129346293.pdf
    • http://comp-art.ru/userfiles/file/90633656600.pdf
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6348d57a812342d1370158f584ffc023/tagawaferitefavabugi.pdf
    • http://www.bash.cl/media/file/31442583834.pdf
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1d32561ae2271fbd560807481288608/14691472390.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=mother+seduced+me
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010d3f.bin
5c5cd5d58dc38266f43ebed8305a8970b25f78d63d7fce859ab1addbd86137e6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D3F 10324 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001249d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1249D 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013caf.bin
f8be92b5b2934bee0d9ffc50ac9275565b48979e4fe765686d9a06205cf2fc9d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CAF 16592 bytes